“Every year across the country hundreds of large female toads laden with eggs are making their way to their breeding lochans. Sometimes their journey from their winter hibernation spot to their breeding spot takes them across a busy road,” said Mr Summers.

He said: “Every year across the country hundreds of large female toads laden with eggs are making their way to their breeding lochans. Sometimes their journey from their winter hibernation spot to their breeding spot takes them across a busy road.

New warning signs have been erected on a road in the Highlands in an effort to improve migrating female toads' chances of survival. Hundreds of the amphibians laden with eggs cross the B869 Lochinver-Stoer road in Sutherland to reach lochs and lochans.

RSPB Scotland has urged people to discard unwanted plastic bags carefully after a rare bird was photographed with one caught in its beak. The red-throated diver was photographed by a visitor to a lochan in a remote part of North Uist. The birds are on ...

Rewind two years and the now magnificent walled garden was a derelict dumping ground. Equally, the house's arboretum, which today boasts more than 500 kinds of tree, two lochans, and a woodland shelter created by the students of the Prince's ...

Rewind two years and the now magnificent walled garden was a derelict dumping ground. Equally, the house's arboretum, which today boasts more than 500 kinds of tree, two lochans, and a woodland shelter created by the students of the Prince's ...